Motivational Quotes

Success

Failure has no friends.

- Kennedy, John F.

Best Quotes about Success

Character is more important than intelligence for success.

Beaux, Gilberte

I'm always making a comeback but nobody ever tells me where I've been.

Holiday, Billie

Success in almost any field depends more on energy and drive than it does on intelligence. This explains why we have so many stupid leaders.

Wilson, Sloan

I challenge you to make your life a masterpiece. I challenge you to join the ranks of those people who live what they teach, who walk their talk.

Robbins, Anthony

Success isn't how far you got, but the distance you traveled from where you started.

Success is like war and like charity in religion, it covers a multitude of sins.

Napier, Sir Charles

When I am delivering my very best, then that is when I feel successful.

Fettig, Art

You only have to do a very few things right in your life so long as you don't do too many things wrong.

Buffett, Warren

Success is doing what you want to do, when you want, where you want, with whom you want, as much as you want.

Robbins, Anthony

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One might think that the money value of an invention constitutes its reward to the man who loves his work. But speaking for myself, I can honestly say this is not so... I continue to find my greatest pleasure, and so my reward, in the work that precedes what the world calls success.

Edison, Thomas A.

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Success doesn't suck.

Rucker, Darius

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Success is not to be pursued; it is to be attracted by the person you become.

Rohn, Jim

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Find somebody to be successful for. Raise their hopes. Think of their needs.

Barack Obama

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There is no way to success in art but to take off your coat, grind paint, and work like a digger on the railroad, all day and every day.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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There is only one success -- to be able to spend your life in your own way.

Morley, Christopher

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Ones best success comes after their greatest disappointments.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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He who has achieved success has worked well, laughed often and loved much.

Hubbard, Elbert

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No matter what you do, do it to your utmost. I always attribute my success to always requiring myself to do my level best, if only in driving a tack in straight.

Conwell, Russel H.

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A young person, to achieve, must first get out of his mind any notion either of the ease or rapidity of success. Nothing ever just happens in this world.

Bok, Edward William

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Success has always been a great liar.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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Success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which one has overcome while trying to succeed.

Washington, Booker T.

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The great secret of success is to go through life as a man who never gets used up.

Schweitzer, Albert

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Success is how high you bounce when you hit bottom.

Patton, George S.

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Success requires first expending ten units of effort to produce one unit of results. Your momentum will then produce ten units of results with each unit of effort.

Givens, Charles J.

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The secret of success is consistency of purpose.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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Success tends to go not to the person who is error-free, because he also tends to be risk-averse. Rather it goes to the person who recognizes that life is pretty much a percentage business. It isn't making mistakes that's critical; it's correcting them and getting on with the principal task.

Rumsfeld, Donald

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That's what building a body of work is all about. It's about the daily labor, the many individual acts, the choices large and small that add up over time, over a lifetime to a lasting legacy. It's about not being satisfied with the latest achievement, the latest gold star, because the one thing I know about a body of work is that it's never finished. It's cumulative. It deepens and expands with each day you give your best. You may have setbacks and you may have failures, but you're not done. You haven't even started.

Barack Obama

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The road to success runs uphill.

Davis, Willie

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Success, remember is the reward of toil.

Sophocles

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Most great people have attained their greatest success just one step beyond their greatest failure.

Hill, Napoleon

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Aim for success, not perfection. Never give up your right to be wrong, because then you will lose the ability to learn new things and move forward with your life.

Dr. David M. Burns

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Every person who wins in any undertaking must be willing to cut all sources of retreat. Only by doing so can one be sure of maintaining that state of mind known as a burning desire to win -- essential to success.

Hill, Napoleon

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The real superstar is a man or a woman raising six kids on $150 a week.

Haywood, Spencer

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The only certain means of is to render more and better service than is expected of you, no matter what your task may be.

Mandino, Og

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Success consists of doing the common things of life uncommonly well.

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If man has good corn, or wood, or boards, or pigs to sell, or can make better chairs or knives, crucibles, or church organs, than anybody else, you will find a broad, hard-beaten road to his house, though it be in the woods.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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The secret of success is to realize that the crisis on our planet is much larger than just deciding what to do with your own life, and if the system under which we live the structure of western civilization begins to collapse because of our selfishness and greed, then it will make no difference whether you have $1 million dollars when the crash comes or just $1.00. The only work that will ultimately bring any good to any of us is the work of contributing to the healing of the world.

Williamson, Marianne

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I do not like to repeat successes, I like to go on to other things.

Disney, Walt

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The formula for success is simple: practice and concentration then more practice and more concentration.

Zaharias, Babe Didrikson

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Sometimes in life you don't always feel like a winner, but that doesn't mean you're not a winner.

Lady Gaga

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On the pinnacle of success man does not stand firm long.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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If at first you don't succeed, lie, lie again.

Peter, Laurence J.

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A successful person is a dreamer whom someone believed in.

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There is no fate that plans men's lives. Whatever comes to us, good or bad, is usually the result of our own action or lack of action.

Casson, Herbert N.

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The leaders we revere and the businesses that last are generally not the result of a narrow pursuit of popularity or personal advancement, but of devotion to some bigger purpose. That's the hallmark of real success. The other trapping of success might be the by product of this larger mission, but it can't be the central thing.

Barack Obama

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Success is like a fart -- only your own smells nice.

Hogan, James P.

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The man of virtue makes the difficulty to be overcome his first business, and success only a subsequent consideration.

Confucius

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Material possessions, winning scores, and great reputations are meaningless in the eyes of the Lord, because He knows what we really are and that is all that matters.

Wooden, John

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Few people are successful unless a lot of other people want them to be.

Browder, Charles

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We climb to heaven most often on the ruins of our cherished plans, finding our failures were successes.

Alcott, Amos Bronson